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David Choe book signing in NYC Sunday
September 8th, 2010
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The Final ‘You Can’t Win’ blog post from Josh and Pez
September 7th, 2010
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Okay, so Ray Brown of The Citrus Report killed me in my last blog post that was supposed to be my last but after some crying and begging, he agreed to do this last one of our trip home. Thanks Ray, love you man!
Maria brought PEZ and I to a hidden fortress on top of a mountain. It was probably the best part of the trip. We walked for like an hour in each direction in total darkness, through the woods the get to a stone house where we chilled and listened to sick Dub music and smoked cigarettes. I actually got like 20 minutes of sleep there, as well. Honestly, to go there at night like that was something out of a dream.
Read the rest on here
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Stanley Donwood Opening Night Photos
September 3rd, 2010
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Stanley Donwood Giclée and Screen Prints Now Available
September 2nd, 2010Correlating with the opening of Stanley Donwood’s first-ever U.S. show entitled “Over Normal”, FIFTY24SF Gallery is releasing a line of prints – four using giclée printing methods sized 30″ x 21″, and three screen prints on acid-free archival paper of varying sizes.
One of the larger themes of the exhibition is the use of words collected from spam emails juxtaposed with the seven primary colors that Stanley noticed being utilized in billboard advertising to draw in a person’s attention – the screen prints ‘FORGOT WAS SORRY‘ (25.5″ x 26″) and ‘DESIRE ENLARGMENT‘ (25.5″ x 29.5″) feature these primary colors and are limited to an edition of 40 each.
The other screen print and giclée prints relate to the sound installation that Stanley Donwood and physicist John Matthias have accomplished for the FIFTY24SF Gallery exhibition entitled “The Overnormalizer.” The installation mimics the result of a neuron firing in an artificial neural network using two sound sources: a voder speaking the words of Spam, and a single violin played by John Matthias – the result is a haunting, unsettling and somehow beautiful ever changing body of sound. The set of giclée prints are the actual data and raster plots that were used as the starting point for The Overnormalizer and are limited to an edition of 10 each. And the screen print ‘ ‘NEUROGRANULAR SAMPLE‘ (set of 40) superimposes multiple of these raster plot graphs using the primary seven-color palette that is used in the “Over Normal” exhibition showing at FIFTY24SF Gallery from September 2nd – October 27th.
All prints are available in our online store here.
(Pictures of all prints after the jump)
FORGOT WAS SORRY (Screen Print 25.5″ x 26″)
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Pez and Joshua Blank @ FIFTY24PDX opens tonight, and the last Bike Tour journal
September 2nd, 2010
Tonight in Portland, the final chapter of the PEZ x Joshua Blank Bike Tour from SF to PDX goes down, as both artists take “You Can’t Win” to FIFTY24PDX. Joshua Blank sent us his final blog post and story …. so if you are in Portland, go check out the show and say hello to our SF friends. Check out some preview shots here.
Ok so, after leaving Dayton, Pez and I where heka tired and we really just wanted to get to Portland. We imagined that the last leg of our trip was way shorter then it actually turned out to be in reality. We left Dayton around 10 AM and rode along the I,5. Thirty miles to Portland. I was sick of pulling out my big ass camera to take pictures of the same scenic heey-haw crap that I had been photographing during the whole trip. Therefore, I will just describe it to you in the opening of this blog entry….
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THE OVER NORMAL NEWSPAPER, BY STANLEY DONWOOD
September 1st, 2010
Posted by FIFTY24SF Gallery
If you are going to be headed to the Over Normal exhibit in San Francisco, starring Stanley Donwood and a sound installation by Donwood and John Matthias, then you are going to get the physical copy of the Over Normal Newspaper, a nice newsprint pamphlet made in conjunction with the FIFTY24SF show.
But if you happen to live in, let us say, Plymouth, England, then you need to go toSlowlyDownward.com and download the PDF so you can experience it like us who sit in the gallery.
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The Over Normal Newspaper, by Stanley Donwood
September 1st, 2010Posted from The Citrus Report
If you are going to be headed to the Over Normal exhibit in San Francisco, starring Stanley Donwood and a sound installation by Donwood and John Matthias, then you are going to get the physical copy of the Over Normal Newspaper, a nice newsprint pamphlet made in conjunction with the FIFTY24SF show.
But if you happen to live in, let us day, Plymouth, England, then you need to go to SlowlyDownward.com and download the PDF so you can experience it like us who sit in the gallery.
